Sliding-door fastener.



B. JULIEN.

SLIDING DOOR FASTBNBR.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. zu, 1912.

11,053,826. Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

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BARTI-IOLOMEW JULIEN, 0F OMAHA, NEBRASKA, ASSIG-NOR TO GRIP NUT COMPANY,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

SLIDING-DOOR FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18,1913.

Application filed September 26, 1912. Serial No. 722,489.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BARTHoLoMnw JU- LIEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residingV at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State ofNebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sliding-DoorFasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to Sliding door fasteners; and it consistsin the peculiar and advantageous construction, herein after describedand claimed, through the medium of which the sliding door of a freightcar can be fastened and locked and sealed either in anentirely closedposition or in a partially open position, as occasion de mands.

I n the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification:Figure 1 is an elevation showing my novel fastener as securing a cardoor in a fully closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing thefastener as securing the door in a partly open position so as to allowthe circulation of air between the forward edge of the door and theopposed portion of the side stile of the 4door frame. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section with the parts positioned as in Fig. 1, and: Fig. 4is a horizontal section with the parts positioned in the same manner asin Fig. 2.

Similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts in all of theviews of the drawings.

The car door 1, of the sliding type, and the door frame portion 2, maybe ofthe construction shown, or of any other construction compatiblewith the purpose of my invention without involving departure from thescope of the same as claimed.

Connected in approved Inanner to the door 1 is a staple 3, and connectedto said staple in a pivotal manner is the latch 4 comprised in myfastener; the said latch 4 being so disposed and mounted as to beadapted to swing vertically. The said latch 4 comprises a mainvertically-disposed portion 5, and a flange 6 integral with the mainportion 5 and extending laterally outward and at right angles thereto,and having two apertures 7, preferably of circular form in plan, and twoapertures 8, preferably of rectangular form in plan. The latch alsocomprises two inwardly extending lateral tongues 9, of T-form, the saidtongues being spaced apart and arranged adjacent the free end of thelatch, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Fixed on the face of the door frame portion 2 is the keeper 10 of thefastener. The said keeper 10 is of channel form in crosssectionthrougdioutV its upper portion and is provided in the forward wall ofits channel portion 10 with a slot 11, both the channel portion and theslot describing an arc of a circle, as shown. Below and at oppositesides of the channel portion 10 the keeper is provided with flangeswhich bear against and-are bolted to the frame portion 2; and it willalso be observed by reference to the drawings that one of the sideflanges of the keeper is provided with an upwardly reaching arm 12bolted to the frame portion 2, and that both side fianges are providedwith arms which extend inward at opposite sides of the frame portion 2,and are bolted or otherwise connected to the main portion 2il of thedoor frame. By virtue of this construction the keeper is connected withthe frame in such manner that it is well adapted to withstand strain,particularly strain exerted in the direction that the door is designedto be moved in. v

It will be understood that the-arm that reaches inward from one sideflange and is numbered 13, is connected by a bolt 14 that extendsthrough the frame portion 2 with the upper of the arms 15 that reachinward from the other side liange, whereby the connection of the keeperto the door frame is materially strengthened. At one side of the lowerend of the slot 11, the keeper is provided with an apertured lug 16, andat or adjacent its lower end the keeper is provided with anotherapertured lug 17; the lug 16 being designed when one of the apertures 7of the latch is registered therewith to receive the shackle of a lock,which bow extends through the registered apertures and the apertured lug17 being designed to receive a seal 18 that depends from the particularapertured portion 8 of the latch that happens to be above it.

By reference to Figs. 1 and 3, it will be seen that when the door 1 isfully closed, the inner aperture 7 of the latch will be registered withthe apertured lug 1G'of the keeper, and the inner aperture 8 of thelatch will be disposed above the apertured lug 17 of the keeper, while,when the door is partly open, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the outer orforward aperture 7 will be registered with the apertured lug 16, and theouter or forward apertured portion 8 will be above the lug 17.

In the practical us-e of my fastener, the door is arranged in fullyclosed position, or in partly open position, as desired, and then thelatch is swung downward so that the particular tongue 9 that ispresented to t-he channeled portion of the keeper is moved downward inthe keeper until the latch portion 6 brings up against the keeper lug16, when the fastener mav be locked and sealed in the manner described.Then it is desired to open the door, the loc-k is opened and the sealbroken, after which the latch is swung upward to carry its tongue out ofthe keeper, when the door and latch may be freely moved toward theright.

By reason of the provision of the flange 6 on the vertically disposedportion 5 of the latch 4:, and the provision of the apertured lug 16 onthe keeper' 10, it will be observed that when the door is latched inclosed position, the flange 6 rests on the lug 16 with the result thatwhen a pad lock is employ-ed to connect the latch and the lug, theshackle of the lock is not subjected to any strain whatever. 1t willalso be observed that the provision of the flange 6 on the latch lenables the seal 1S to extend directly down from the latch to theapertured lug 17 on the keeper, which is advantageous inasmuch as itfacilitates the sealing of the latch.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:

1. The combination of a door frame, f1. sliding door, a keeper fixed onone of the upright portions of the door frame and having a channelportion and an open slot in the forward wall of the channel portion,both channel portion and slot describing an arc of a circle, anapertured lug carried b v the keeper and extending outward. therefrom atone side of the lower portion o-f the slot, an apertured .lug carried bythe keeper and extending outward therefrom at a point below the slot,and a vertically swinging latch pivoted to the door and having avertically dispo-sed portion and tongues of T- form extending inwardfrom the vertically disposed portion at intervals in the length thereofand also having an angularly-disposed flange extending outward from thevertically disposed portion and constructed and arranged to rest on thefirst named lug of the keeper and above the second named lug thereof andhaving apertures at intervals in its length adapted to be registeredwith the first named apertured lug and also having apertures arranged torest labove the second named lug.

Q. rlhe combination of a door frame, a sliding door, a keeper fixed onone of the upright portions of the door frame and having a channelportion and an open slot in the forward wall of the channel portion,both channel portion and slot describing an are of a circle, anapertured lug carried by the keeper and extending outward therefrom atone side of the lower portion of the slot, an apertured lug carried bythe keeper and extending outward therefrom at a point below the slot,and a vertically swinging latch pivoted to the door and having avertically disposed portion and a tongue movable in the slot and havingan enlargement at its inner end; said latch also having anangularly-disposed flange. extending outward .from thevertically-disposed portion and constructed and arranged to rest on thefirst named lug of the keeper and also having in said flange an apertureadapted to be registered with the first named lug and another apertureadapted to rest above the second named lug.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

BARTHOLOMEV JULIEN. litnesses EMANUEL E. HoFrEn, JAMES T. BARRETT.

Washington, D. C V

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